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#787 – Vin Vindelici
Born in 114 AD in Augusta Vindelicorum, Vin is a battled hardened P.O.W. forced to fight as a gladiator in Rome who, after earning his freedom after multiple victories, opted to keep fighting for the love of killing.
RomanPunks is a retrofuturistic, cyberpunk derivative world-building project inspired by fine art, history and the cryptopunk movement.
A total of 1,000 RomanPunk characters have been frozen in time and minted as Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) on the Ethereum, WAX, Polygon and Algorand blockchains.
RomanPunk characters are comprised of commoners and famous individuals based on Roman history, art history and pop culture.
The basis for RomanPunk lore and backstories is exhaustively researched by history/sci-fi buff and co-founder, Punktavian.
All images are drawn by hand by woman artist and co-founder, Cleopunktra, without the aid of AI or generative tools.
RomanPunks came into existence through early minting on OpenSea, promoting on Twitter and building a Discord community through giveaways and engagement. The idea of a cyberpunk-derivative ‘RomanPunk’ theme was in our heads for years, but it was the success of the Cryptopunks that became the catalyst for project conception and launch.
After a hard working first 60 days spent networking and attracting new collectors to RomanPunks, our community had begun to flourish and sales increased. We began to offer our collectors an opportunity to battle their NFTs in a tournament bracket powered by dice rolls.
Encouraged by the tight knit community and the carbon-neutral blockchain with lightning fast and low cost transactions, we launched 'romanpunksio' collection on WAX Blockchain as the first step to expand the backstories of our RomanPunk characters and the baseline for future development of a card game.
RomanPunks integrated with Chainlink Labs to utilize VRF (Verified Randomness Function) to host a giveaway raffle for our holders. We developed a smart contract on Ethereum which guarantees true random number selection on chain and can be used for a wide range of functions that require random selection.
After much anticipation in the community, we released our first WAX NFT card 'pack' through the Neftyblocks platform, which sold out in less than a week.
We launched our Twitch channel and begun building an audience by offering numerous giveaways of WAX NFTs from our collection, as well as giving participants a chance to win RomanPunk ETH NFT airdrops for taking top spot at the end of the 'season'.
As firm believers in a metaverse future and land owners in The Sandbox, we undertook to build the RomanPunk Colosseum on 1x1 land and entered our experience "Gladiator Bloodsport" into a GameJam contest. We will continue to build the Colosseum into a PVP arena and social hub once The Sandbox offers creators the ability to do so.
Thanks to the user friendly tools offered by NeftyBlocks, we launched a comprehensive blending system on WAX, allowing our collectors to blend the common NFTs they earn in our Discord RPG up into Legendary famous NFTs through the use of blending 'coins' that can also be earned on the Discord as reward for helping to promote the RomanPunks project.
We launched the VX collection on Polygon. Each owner of an ETH NFT gets their voxel equivalent airdropped to them, and these NFTs can be redeemed for official NFTs on The Sandbox Marketplace once available.
All 1,000 original, unique 1:1 RomanPunk characters hand drawn by Cleopunktra and minted on OpenSea.
The RomanPunk WAX NFT Trading Card Fighter Pack Series II consists of 3 NFTs randomly selected from over 236 characters.
Upcoming plans for RomanPunks include:
Below is a comprehensive and searchable directory of all 1,000 RomanPunk Characters.
Born in 114 AD in Augusta Vindelicorum, Vin is a battled hardened P.O.W. forced to fight as a gladiator in Rome who, after earning his freedom after multiple victories, opted to keep fighting for the love of killing.
Born 2029 AD in Ebusus, Cassian is an interdimensional raver who drifts between realities, constantly chasing the next great EDM show. His path leads him to Elektrosar, a timeless bass-heavy festival that runs sempiternally in the ancient Hanging Gardens of a 25th-century Babylonian utopia. During a Chemical Sisters set, Cassian exchanges kandy with the unattainable PLUR princess Saba Nebunoida, a moment that turns his world upside down and sparks an unhealthy obsession.
Born in 353 BC in the once mighty kingdom of Phrygia, Gordi welcomed the invasion of Alexander the Great, following his conquests through Asia and Egypt where he fell into a dimensional portal and became pressed into the service of a demonic army from a distant time and place.
Born in 51 BC in Gaetulia, Wisi Yende, a footsoldier in the army of the Musulamii tribe, was abducted by aliens during a Sahara desert sandstorm and pressed into service to fight a cyberwar in a distant future dimension.
Born 2141 AD in Neo-Carthage, Zorin serves as the cunning vizier to the city’s governor, a corrupt puppet of the Roman Empire suzerain. A lover of vanity, gladiatorial combat and a master of subterfuge with a network of spies, he wields a rare tool, the Septivox, granting him insight into alternate dimensions. Meanwhile, beneath the city’s opulent surface, a cloned Hannibal Barca leads an underground rebellion, poised to dismantle the governor’s fragile rule, propped up by deceit and manipulation.
Born 123 BC on the mystical isle of Læsø, Sigrid comes from an advanced tribe of wealthy salt barons with access to interdimensional travel. When not gallivanting through the future, she spends her time training champion ‘golden retriever’ canines on her remote, bucolic island paradise.
Born in 295 AD in Tarraco, Spain, Sisera Hispaniola, a convicted murderer, was sent to the gladiator pits as punishment, where he found great success. Fearing his rise in popularity, Emperor Constantine had Sisera thrust into a dimensional portal where he continued to dominate the colosseum in a distant future timeline.
Born in 106 AD, Rabbel guarded the royal tombs of Petra until one day he disappeared into a dimensional portal, sending him to a distant place and time where he was pressed into service as a cybergladiator.
Born 351 BC in Hecatompylos, Roxane had a promising career as a concubine of Alexander the Great before she was kidnapped by time traffickers and whisked to a Romanesque 20th century AD alternate dimension and forced to fight as a shopping mall gladiator.
Born 213 BC in Rome, Cambria and her sister Ursula were born with silver spoons in their mouths. Cambria, who had a history of brawling in the streets in her youth, was installed by her patrician father as a military commander in a reserve unit to keep her busy and out of trouble.
Born 212 AD in Hispalis, Maxim was slave to a cyborg patrician. Upon learning of his master’s secret he was sent to the gladiator pits; skilled with a knife, became a successful fan favourite who always fought with slurpee in hand.
Born in 169 AD in Meroë, Sami is a warrior priest who spent his life fighting against incursions from Roman Egypt, using the dimensional portal in the Pyramid of Amanishakheto to invoke the technological support of alien masters from a distant future galaxy.
Born 41 AD in Rome, Aericus is a senator masquerading as an actor to be closer to his forbidden love, a pleb Philetus, star of Virgil’s Aeneid.
Born in 185 BC in Alexandria, Raad is a dimension-hopping temple guard equipped with high tech defensive equipment to protect the treasures of the pharaohs from time looters and tourists.
Born 311 AD in Gordion, Alce volunteered to battle as an interdimensional gladiator in place of his half-witted brother, Alberic, who was caught stealing silverware. Now he fights in a shopping mall arena in a Romanesque 20th century AD.
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